Data Security Contracts in the Midlands

Data Security
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 120 144
Rank change year-on-year +24 +24 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Security 15 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.78% 0.47% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.57% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 13
10th Percentile £307 £380 £225
25th Percentile £365 £559 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.23% +30.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £505 £675 £569
90th Percentile £600 £750 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
England median hourly rate £18.50 £40.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -53.75% +107.79% -12.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the Midlands

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +13 11 £463 -28.85% 19
East Midlands +13 4 £447 - 10
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (6.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (6.67%) Intranet
2 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (13.33%) Metadata
3 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (6.67%) Big Data
4 1 (6.67%) Flink
4 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (6.67%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Digital
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Digital Transformation
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Migration Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) PySpark
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (6.67%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (6.67%) Keycloak
3 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) ETL
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Analytics
3 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 5 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (26.67%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (26.67%) Data Integration
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) Data Science
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) Scala
5 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
6 1 (6.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) CISSP
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (13.33%) CEH
3 2 (13.33%) CISM
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) CITP
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.67%) MCP
4 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
4 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Proofpoint
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce